Author: Peter Schäfer
Date: 02:27:50 03/25/04
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On March 25, 2004 at 01:35:55, Christophe Theron wrote: >On March 23, 2004 at 13:58:12, Vasik Rajlich wrote: > >>On March 23, 2004 at 07:16:08, Joshua Shriver wrote: >> >>>I agree with the other poster. I would just stick with scid and xboard or >>>eboard. >>> >>>You mentioned you're running Windows under and emulator, which one? Reason I ask >>>limits what can be done to solve the problem. >>> >>>Here are some possible options and comments: >>> >>>Emulation is very slow and is cpu intensive so it's going to hurt the engines >>>strength. Emulation also means that whatever is running the OS is contained in a >>>sandbox, meaning that there are no conventional outside connection (file viewing >>>etc). Though there are some ways around that. > > > >Well you seem to be quite misinformed. > >The Windows emulators for Linux are almost as fast as a real Windows box, and >offer many ways to exchange files and networking capabilities. > >Win4lin runs a Windows almost AS FAST as a real box. It can use the native Linux >file system. It offers network sharing (if your Linux is connected to a network, >Win4lin is also, automatically). > >VMware runs Windows slightly slower than Win4lin, but it is still very fast (did >you think that the x86 instructions where interpreted or what?). It offers >network sharing to access the Linux filesystem or any external network. It's >very good. I can run simultaneously a Windows 98 and a Windows XP on my Linux >box! I can test my applications for several versions of Windows on a single >computer without rebooting! > >So to sum it up, I recommend Win4Lin and VMware. I would not recommend Wine, or >just for a few applications (most of the stuff I have tried with Wine did not >work). I do not know about Bochs, but I have heard that it does a complete >hardware emulation, and that is supposed to be indeed very slow. But it can >emulate a PC on a Mac! OK, but that doesn't answer the original question: can you run a native engine (a Linux executable) under an emulated GUI ? (I strongly doubt it...) On the other hand, chess engines use few OS functions, so the speed penalty shouldn't be big anyway.
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